Indigenous rights and United Nations standards : self-determination, culture and land / Alexandra Xanthaki.
"The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations fora, can be accommodated by current...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996).
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| Summary: | "The debate on indigenous rights has revealed some serious difficulties for current international law, posed mainly by different understandings of important concepts. This book explores the extent to which indigenous claims, as recorded in the United Nations fora, can be accommodated by current international law. By doing so, it also highlights how the indigenous debate has stretched the contours of, and ultimately evolved, international human rights standards."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxix, 314 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521835747 9780521835749 |